No, the Old Testament does not mention the church age.
Les Feldick teaches that the Old Testament's prophetic program moves straight through to the end without any interruption or hint of the church age. All Old Testament prophecy is directed to Israel, and the church age is a parenthetical period later revealed through the Apostle Paul.
Daniel 7:7 — Daniel's vision of the fourth beast is presented as a continuous prophetic sequence, with no intervening church age mentioned.
Psalm 2:6 — The Old Testament program in Psalm 2 points to God's King on Zion and the coming kingdom, without any mention of the church.
The Old Testament nowhere speaks of a church age or of God calling out a body of Gentile believers. In Daniel 7:7, the vision of the fourth beast is given as a continuing sequence of human history. The passage contains no parenthetical period representing a New Testament church. Psalm 2 likewise lays out God's program for His King and the nations, moving toward the establishment of His kingdom on Zion, with no reference to a church age.
Les explains that the Old Testament is totally silent about the church age. He says all prophecy is directed to and connected with the nation of Israel, and not a word is breathed about a church age comprised of Gentile believers. The Old Testament program, as seen in passages like Psalm 2, moves from the coming of Israel, to the rejection and crucifixion of the Messiah, to the tribulation, and then to the Kingdom — with no mention of the church in between. According to Les, the church age is a parenthetical period that was slipped into history after Israel rejected the Messiah, but it was never revealed to the Old Testament writers. Historically, the prophetic program was interrupted, yet in its Old Testament context it appears to continue without interruption to the end.
Les teaches that no prophecy gives any indication of the church. Every Old Testament prophecy is directed to Israel. In Psalm 2, the prophetic program goes from the Messiah's rejection to the tribulation and then to the Kingdom, with no church age in view. The Old Testament knows nothing but the prophetic program moving straight through to the end.
Les compares the prophets' view to approaching a mountain range. From a distance, the foothills and higher peaks look like one continuous range. Just as a traveler cannot discern a valley between distant mountains, the Old Testament prophets could not discern the intervening church age between Christ's first advent and His coming in power and glory. They understood that something was between the two advents, but they could not see it clearly.
Les calls the church age a parenthetical period of time that has been slipped in between the prophetic program. Since all prophecy is connected with Israel, and the church is a Gentile entity, the Body of Christ must be removed before the prophetic program resumes. Les stresses that the church is strictly a Pauline revelation — you cannot find anything concerning the church in the Old Testament. The church age is an undetermined period, unlike Israel's history, which God laid out on a timetable.
Daniel 7:7 Context
Les begins in Daniel 7 to show the uninterrupted flow of Gentile empires in prophecy, setting up why the church age is not visible in the Old Testament.
The Undetermined Church Age
During the prophetic time when God deals with Israel, the church age is never mentioned; it is an undetermined period, unlike Israel's timetable.
Prophecy Moves Straight Through
Les emphasizes that Old Testament prophecy never hints at the intervening church age; it moves straight through to the end, even though historically it was interrupted.
Prophets Understood Something Between
Les uses the mountain-range illustration to show that the prophets knew something existed between Christ's two advents, but they could not discern what it was.
The Church Is a Pauline Revelation
Les explains that all prophecy is tied to Israel and the church is a parenthetical Gentile period; its doctrines come from Paul, not the Old Testament.
Old Testament Program Centers on Israel
Les uses Isaac and Rebekah as a picture of Christ and the bride, but stresses that the Old Testament program has no hint of the church age.
Psalm 2 and the Missing Church
Les shows that the Old Testament program in Psalm 2 never hints at the church age; it goes from the Messiah's rejection to tribulation to the Kingdom.
Prophecy Seen as One Mountain Range
Les explains that the Old Testament prophets saw both advents as a single range, with the church age later opened up and parenthesized.
Daniel 7:7: After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
Daniel's vision of the fourth beast is given as a continuous prophetic sequence, with no intervening church age mentioned.
Psalm 2:6: Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
The Old Testament program in Psalm 2 moves toward the establishment of God's King on Zion, with no mention of the church age.
No. Les teaches that the Old Testament is totally silent about the church age. It never mentions going to the Gentiles to call out a people for God's name, and the Old Testament program is centered on Israel's prophetic future.
Les explains that the prophets saw prophecy like a distant mountain range — events appeared continuous. They could not discern the valley of the church age between Christ's first and second comings. The church age was a parenthetical period later revealed through the Apostle Paul.
Les says all prophecy is directed to and connected with the nation of Israel. No prophecy gives any indication of the church, and the Old Testament prophets knew nothing but the prophetic program moving straight through to the end.
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